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Re:OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Im... by xinu2020 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @09:37AM (#35245893)
>The occupations with the highest exposure include mathematicians, tax preparers, writers, web designers, accountants, journalists, and legal secretaries.

I'm surprised to see "mathematicians" here, but what do they refer to? Mathematician as an academic position? As teacher? As consultant?

Re:OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Im... by tmpz22 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @09:41AM (#35245952)
Yes I really want a product that lies constantly to do my taxes for me…

This is absurd.

Re:OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Im... by Ekaros on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:44AM (#35258775)
I want sensible tax code and government run expert system that does my taxes for me... Like we do here in civilized world...

It seems AI is looking for problem, where better and cheaper options would make infinitely more sense...

Re:OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Im... by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @09:46AM (#35246006)
Maybe that copywriting was written by ChatGPT, lol.
Re:OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Im... by francisofascii on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @09:49AM (#35246046)
Actuaries
Re:OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Im... by mistrial9 on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:14AM (#35246395)
it means that the writers recognize the topic but have not penetrated into the actual practice as it relates to economics. An analogy would be to say "English spellers are affected" because of spell checking software. I agree that including that raises more questions than it answers.
Re:OpenAI Research Says 80% of U.S. Workers' Jobs Will Be Im... by thwayunion on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:19AM (#35246495)
Most professional mathematicians work at universities. Even at well-ranked R1s, professors spend a non-trivial amount of time teaching and advising. The ones who do spend a massive amount of time doing mathematics are the least likely to be impact by GPT-like technology because of the nature of their mathematics.

And, more to the point, mathematicians are often doing that work because they enjoy it. Even in the best case for GPT, with respect to most professional mathematicians, you've done the equivalent of automating away their Sudoku/Crossword time.

You might be able to replace some graduate student labor or post-doc labor, but a huge reason for doing that labor in the first place is to train new mathematicians... it's like the grad school version of automating a second grader's multiplication table: you can do it, and you are "automating" the second grader's labor, but you've kinda missed the point...

I wonder how many of the other categories are similar, where the tasks that are being automated are sort of pointless or even counter-productive to automate. Because automating those tasks disrupts the learning process between the professional and their customer, and that learning process is actually the primary product. Legal secretaries and accountants in particular come to mind. Even a lot of web dev work.